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devil (someone or an animal) for something
Fig. to bother or harass someone or an animal for something. The child kept deviling her mother for an ice-cream cone. The kittens continued to devil the mother cat for their dinner.
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The Tasmanian Government has nominated the devil for listing as vulnerable under the State''s Threatened Species Act in response to field data indicating the devil population had dropped between 33 and 50 per cent from a 1990 peak of 130000.
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He will be back to tempt us again, however, after we have done the good will of the Father in heaven, let us look forward to the angels who will come and minister to us and comfort us just the same as they did Jesus in the wilderness where he was tempted of the devil for forty days and forty nights.
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Frightened, Jack begs the Devil for a light, and the Devil throws Jack a coal from hell.
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